Dude figures out when Ice Cube had ‘Good Day’

January 20, 1992: Was this the day Ice Cube didn’t have to use his AK?

In what may be the finest example of forensic hip-hop investigative calculations, some dude figured out the exact date Ice Cube had his famously good day — you know, the one he recorded a hit single about in 1993.

Skateboarder Donovan Strain crunched the numbers over at his blog Murk Avenue. (Just what were the dates when the Lakers beat the SuperSonics after the debut of Yo! MTV Raps but before the album’s release date, anyway?)

Based on the following criteria, this is what he came up with:

The ONLY day where:
Yo MTV Raps was on air
It was a clear and smogless day
Beepers were commercially sold
Lakers beat the SuperSonics
and Ice Cube had no events to attend was…